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Episode Twelve: Twenty Five Years, One Legacy
Episode twelve is a little different to previous podcasts. We took this opportunity to review and celebrate the first 25 years of Human Rights Media Centre. On the 15th of November HRMC celebrated…
Episode Eleven: The Right to Work: Challenges and Solutions
Episode Eleven delves into the challenges faced by refugees and asylum seekers in exercising the right to work. The right to work is entrenched in international human rights law. First introduced in…
Episode Ten: Humanity Transcends Nationality
Episode ten focuses on the white paper on Immigration, Citizenship and Refugee Protection. This policy document, made public over a year ago, proposes major changes in the South African migration…
Episode Nine: Endless Wait for Asylum Seekers’ appeals
Episode nine unpacks the endless delays causing fear and uncertainty experienced by asylum seekers stuck in the appeals’ process. We speak to three asylum seekers, review Human Rights Media Centre’s…
Episode Eight: Building South Africa Together
Episode eight focuses on the Department of Home Affair’s assertion that refugees are a burden to South Africa. This is despite their small numbers, and the evidence showing that refugees and asylum…
Episode Seven: The Constitution Our Pledge to Humanity
Episode seven focuses again on the White Paper circulated by the Department of Home Affairs. Many civil society organisations, including the Human Rights Media Centre, take strong issue with its…
Episode Six: Belonging threatened!
Episode six focuses on how the Human Rights Media Centre has, along with civil society, taken a stand against the Department of Home Affairs’ White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration & Refugee…
Episode Five: UMOJA WAMAMA – Together for Change
Episode five focuses on Umoja Wamama Crafters Co-Operative, a women’s collective allied to the Human Rights Media Centre. Most of the members are from the refugee community; some are South African…
Episode Four: Exercising the Right to Belong.
Episode Four explores the experiences of three young people, born and raised in South Africa of refugee parents, and their journey toward accessing their right to belong. In South Africa, the Bill of…
Episode Three: Securing Refugee Women and Children’s Rights
Episode Three centres around the struggles of women refugees. We explore how refugee women’s organising has made a difference! Under the new regulation, refugees and asylum seekers can get their own…
Episode Two: You can’t be a refugee forever!
Episode Two explores naturalisation as one of three durable solutions to end refugee-hood. Join your host Epiphanie Mukasano this World Refugee Month as she discusses issues surrounding Refugee…
S2E1 Episode One: Making Good our Commitment to Human Rights
Episode One concerns the rights of asylum seekers and refugees living in Cape Town because documentation services were closed here by the Department of Home Affairs in 2012. Join Epiphanie Mukasano…
World Refugee Day 2022
This podcast produced by the Human Rights Media Centre to commemorate World Refugee Day 2022, considers the ‘Right to Asylum’ and its implementation in South Africa. Representatives from the United…
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Human Rights Live has published 13 episodes since June 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Human Rights Live is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 29m.
